DeSantis ridicules Biden's off script oil and gas comments at State of the Union, slams energy policy

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday blamed President Biden's energy policies for contributing to inflation and ridiculed an off-script remark from the president's State of the Union address, when Biden said that the U.S. would need oil and natural gas for many years to come. 

"We are still going to need oil and gas for a while," Biden said during his speech, which prompted laughter from Republicans for stating the obvious. At a press conference the next day, DeSantis ripped the president for, on the one hand, asking oil companies to increase production to lower energy prices and, on the other, insisting that fossil fuels will be obsolete in the next decade and pursuing policies to limit energy production and discourage investments.

"Biden says, ‘we’re gonna need oil for 10 more years,'" DeSantis said while announcing a broad tax relief program designed to ease the burden of inflation on Floridians.